This paper investigates the social-welfare efficiency drivers of public university hospitals in Brazil by focusing on how the surrounding social welfare conditions may affect their performance. A novel Genetic Envelopment Analysis (GEA) approach is developed here to this end. Subsequently, LASSO...

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the performance of OECD countries' long-term productivity during the period of 1975–2018. Design/methodology/approach This study employed different approaches to evaluate how efficiency scores vary with changes in inputs and outputs: Data Envelopment...